I am 50 years old. I've been paying varying degrees of attention to politics since I was in my teens.

This is the stupidest "controversy" I have ever seen, or at least can recall. The fact that administration resources are being wasted on this ridiculousness is criminal.

Movement conservatives are stupid and deserve scorn and ridicule. I'm also pissed that the Administration responded to this at all. The most it deserved was a "are you freaking kidding me with this crap?"

The bust that was returned was returned as a matter of course with all the other artwork that had been loaned to President Bush for display in his Oval Office and not something that President Obama or his Administration chose to do.

Oh, so Obama was returning something that was loaned to the last guy who couldn't find it in himself to return it. I can see why this is such an outrage to the authors/defenders of the "How much for another war? Screw it, grandkids are payin' for it. Hell, while we're at it, let's cut more taxes!" mentality.

Ok, I'll enlighten those of you in the "intellectual party" who obviously have no idea what this is regarding...

Krauthammer criticized Pfeiffer and Obummer administration for returning a bust of Churchill to the Brits.

Pfeiffer vigorously denied Krauthammer's claim that the White House had returned a bust of Winston Churchill to the British Embassy, knowing full well that it had. He lied to try to make Krauthammer look like an a-hole thinking no one would look into it. It was a dick move and he got caught.

It's all much ado about nothing but as usual there's more to this story than "OBAMA returned a bust! What's the big deal!! Repubs are all baby-killing homphobic racists!" *BONG RIP*

And that concludes this years post in FARK politics tab, you may now resume saying "DERP" to each other and having a liberal circle jerk.

/independent//they both suck///intellectual honesty - how does it work?!

1. Artwork is loaned to Bush.2. Bush leaves office, returning loaned artwork.3. Whackjobs assume Obama expelled the artwork in disgust.4. Lots of people repeat #35. Overzealous staffer confuses returned artwork with similar artwork6. Overzealous staffer tries to prove #3 wrong with bad evidence from #57. Everyone on this planet is a god damn moron and we deserve to die painfully for this even being a thing.

GhostFish:1. Artwork is loaned to Bush.2. Bush leaves office, returning loaned artwork.3. Whackjobs assume Obama expelled the artwork in disgust.4. Lots of people repeat #35. Overzealous staffer confuses returned artwork with similar artwork6. Overzealous staffer tries to prove #3 wrong with bad evidence from #57. Everyone on this planet is a god damn moron and we deserve to die painfully for this even being a thing.

Close, it's not "similar artwork" it's an exact replica of the very bust in question. It is in fact a copy of the original bust. That's how farking stupid this non-troversy is!

GhostFish:1. Artwork is loaned to Bush.2. Bush leaves office, returning loaned artwork.3. Whackjobs assume Obama expelled the artwork in disgust.4. Lots of people repeat #35. Overzealous staffer confuses returned artwork with similar artwork6. Overzealous staffer tries to prove #3 wrong with bad evidence from #57. Everyone on this planet is a god damn moron and we deserve to die painfully for this even being a thing.

GhostFish:1. Artwork is loaned to Bush.2. Bush leaves office, returning loaned artwork.3. Whackjobs assume Obama expelled the artwork in disgust.4. Lots of people repeat #35. Overzealous staffer confuses returned artwork with similar artwork6. Overzealous staffer tries to prove #3 wrong with bad evidence from #57. Everyone on this planet is a god damn moron and we deserve to die painfully for this even being a thing.

Yeah, this is somewhere between "making a poor throw wearing mom jeans" and "spicy mustard" on the outrage scale

magusdevil:GhostFish: 1. Artwork is loaned to Bush.2. Bush leaves office, returning loaned artwork.3. Whackjobs assume Obama expelled the artwork in disgust.4. Lots of people repeat #35. Overzealous staffer confuses returned artwork with similar artwork6. Overzealous staffer tries to prove #3 wrong with bad evidence from #57. Everyone on this planet is a god damn moron and we deserve to die painfully for this even being a thing.

Close, it's not "similar artwork" it's an exact replica of the very bust in question. It is in fact a copy of the original bust. That's how farking stupid this non-troversy is!

The controversy, in case you haven't read any of the articles, wasn't about a bust. It was the fact that the White House made such a point of calling Krauthammer a liar. Here's his own comment about it (prior to the White House fellow breaking down and telling the truth for the first time):

"In my view, this whole affair was completely unnecessary. Pfeiffer devoted an entire post (with accompanying photography) on the White House Blog to a single sentence in a larger argument about foreign policy, and blew it up into an indignant defense of truth itself and a handy club with which to discredit the credibility of a persistent critic of his boss. (After all, why now? Why this column? Since the return of the Oval Office Churchill in 2009, that fact had been asserted in at least half a dozen major news outlets, including Newsweek, CBS News, ABC News, the Telegraph and The Washington Post.)"

So it's not just about Obama snubbing our allies, its about his rabid attack dogs getting caught lying and more so about Obama's people attacking and belittling others when they make the grave mistake of actually telling the truth.

Pay more attention and you'll figure this stuff out on your own one of these days.

Leeds:magusdevil: GhostFish: 1. Artwork is loaned to Bush.2. Bush leaves office, returning loaned artwork.3. Whackjobs assume Obama expelled the artwork in disgust.4. Lots of people repeat #35. Overzealous staffer confuses returned artwork with similar artwork6. Overzealous staffer tries to prove #3 wrong with bad evidence from #57. Everyone on this planet is a god damn moron and we deserve to die painfully for this even being a thing.

Close, it's not "similar artwork" it's an exact replica of the very bust in question. It is in fact a copy of the original bust. That's how farking stupid this non-troversy is!

The controversy, in case you haven't read any of the articles, wasn't about a bust. It was the fact that the White House made such a point of calling Krauthammer a liar. Here's his own comment about it (prior to the White House fellow breaking down and telling the truth for the first time):

"In my view, this whole affair was completely unnecessary. Pfeiffer devoted an entire post (with accompanying photography) on the White House Blog to a single sentence in a larger argument about foreign policy, and blew it up into an indignant defense of truth itself and a handy club with which to discredit the credibility of a persistent critic of his boss. (After all, why now? Why this column? Since the return of the Oval Office Churchill in 2009, that fact had been asserted in at least half a dozen major news outlets, including Newsweek, CBS News, ABC News, the Telegraph and The Washington Post.)"

So it's not just about Obama snubbing our allies, its about his rabid attack dogs getting caught lying and more so about Obama's people attacking and belittling others when they make the grave mistake of actually telling the truth.

Pay more attention and you'll figure this stuff out on your own one of these days.

The controversy about the Churchill bust long predates Krauthammer's column. It dates back to at least April of 2011, when Snopes first put up an article. Link

Perhaps you knew that, and were just being dishonest, or perhaps you just need to "pay more attention".